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January 22, 2024

UK’s powerful laser weapon in action hits aerial targets for the first time

Interesting Engineering The UK Armed Forces are closer to having a powerful laser weapon that can hit targets with high accuracy and

January 22, 2024

Amid Red Sea clashes, Navy leaders ask: Where are our ship lasers?

Navy Times The head of U.S. Naval Surface Forces and other brass have praised the work of Navy destroyers operating

January 16, 2024

Why Shoot Down Houthi Missiles When We Could Microwave Them?

Forbes Raytheon’s high power microwave system may one day knock down drones, missiles, and more with the repeatability of your

December 21, 2023

Raytheon building high-power microwave weapons in Tucson

Tucson.com Raytheon in Tucson will build two high-power microwave antenna systems for the Navy and Air Force that will use

November 21, 2023

Iron Beam laser defense system set to become operational earlier than expected

CTech The missiles, rockets and drones launched at Israel by Hamas, Hezbollah, the pro-Iranian militias in Syria and the Houthis

November 2, 2023

US military hints it could use laser and microwave weapons to fend off attacks on its bases near Israel

Insider The Pentagon has hinted that it could use laser and microwave weapons to fend off attacks on its bases near Israel.

October 23, 2023

White House seeks $1.2B for laser upgrade to Iron Dome to protect Israel

Inside Defense The Biden administration, in its massive emergency supplemental spending request sent to Congress today, is seeking $1.2 billion

October 17, 2023

‘Iron Beam’: Israel’s deadly laser tech can be used against Hamas’ missiles; how it works

Business Today Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has built a technology called the Iron Beam, which is a laser weapon

September 27, 2023

German Navy completes laser weapon demonstrator trials

Naval Technology MBDA Deutschland and Rheinmetall – working together as a High-Energy Laser Naval Demonstrator Group, abbreviated in German as ‘ARGE’ –

September 25, 2023

Groundbreaking laser prototype systems delivered to 4-60th Air Defense Artillery Regiment

US Army The U.S. Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office, known as RCCTO, announced the successful delivery of four